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Lurch you sound like a disgruntled former phone guy.
Let me tell you about the CATV industry since I worked it for 10 years. They work you like dogs, don't care about your safety, and treat you like a 5 year old. I now work for Verizon, for the last 13 years. It is like apples and oranges my friend. FIOS work is not toning out a pair of wires, it requires many different skill sets. You need to know how to splice fiber, run wire, networking, catv etc.
Just to prove it, VZ bitched and moaned they were getting the ass kicked by Concast cheap labor. So they heavily recruited a crapload of them. The company thought these guys were gonna come in and work circles around us. Wrong, after 8 months on the job they were all threatend with termination for low productivity, half of them had damage complaints every other day. Well they all got let go.
Now let me tell you the reason I deserve a raise, and record profits have nothing to do with it.
1. I do a quality job every day, no matter if your house is a palace, or a $hithole.
2. When I leave, your fios service works, you know how to use it, and are very happy with the service you recieved.
3. See above about former concast workers, no not any chimp can do my job
4. The cost of living is out of control, food, oil, gasoline is through the roof, college cost are rising every year.
5. Without my union brothers and sisters this company would'nt be worth %$%$%$%$, and the company knows it or they would have been no progress sat night, and we would be picketing now, we make the profits not the other way around we are not asking for a simple split across the board of the companies profit, we are asking for a decent living wage, and to keep our health benefits, and pensions status quo.
INstead of being pissed at us, why don't you get pissed at your crappy employer.
BTW if Concast does'nt unionize thats something those people will have to live with, I know I will still sleep fine at night.
Union Steward
IBEW Local 2222
Hang Tough
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